In Nicaragua, Brazil and Argentina increased at an alarming rate sexist crimes. "The female body has become a battleground in the territory in which men establish disputes," they say. Today and tomorrow experts discuss this issue in Madrid.
If the map of femicide had a country, Juarez would be the city emblem, but the capital would be located somewhere in Guatemala or El Salvador, where the number of murders of women raped, mutilated and partially buried above average of a dead woman a day in the Mexican city.
The so-called 'triangle of violence', the most dangerous to be born female, is formed by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador (1,798 women died in 2009). Associations defending human rights in these three countries reported a rampant increase in homicides of women because they are women and, worse, institutional disinterest leaves unpunished 77% of these crimes.
"It's a pandemic," complains Grace Atencio-editor of the website feminicidio.net "," In Guatemala, every day killed two women. In El Salvador, a country of 6 million people died violently last year 560 women. As if in Madrid appeared lying on the edges of routes 560 dead per year.
Femicide is the term Latin American activists have borrowed from English (femicide) to define the proliferation of murders of women because they are women, whether perpetrated by strangers or by partners or ex-sentimental. It also includes violations that carry out effective law enforcement forces, police or military. And trafficking in women for sexual purposes.
At its origin, the Mexican feminist Marcela Lagarde coined the term to describe a pattern identical killings "occur free zones, where young women go to work and preceded by sexual assault and mutilation. Not that they are unpublished, have happened before, but have grown and spread to other areas in which women are vulnerable, "says Julia Tamayo, head of Gender Violence Amnesty International.
But the serious situation no longer only affects Ciudad Juárez. In Mexico there are ten other localities with the highest incidence of femicide. And NGOs reported that in Nicaragua, Brazil and Argentina are soaring crimes sexist grounds. In Latin America, "the woman's body was become a battleground in the territory in which men establish dispute and seek to represent the power in relation to other men, "says Tamayo.
According to experts, high militarization of the area and the advancement of the drug cartels or gangs, are circumstances that make it even more endangered women.
La Casa de America in Madrid today and tomorrow brings together lawyers, politicians and NGO representatives at a conference looking specifically designed tools to reduce the high impunity for these crimes, which reaches 98% in countries like Guatemala .
crimes go unpunished If the message is released there is no punishment and creating a breeding ground for criminal
In Mexico, 57% of murders of women committed from 2005 to 2010 remain unresolved, Luz Estrada said recently, the National Citizens' Watch Femicide, the newspaper Reforma. "If 57% of cases a year, would be acceptable, because these investigations are slow, but after five years the authorities did not know who killed the 57% of women is very serious. It means that there is impunity for these crimes. "
"Experts believe there is a structural failure of the judicial system, corruption of the security forces, sexism and society is not pressing," sums up Grace Atencio. "And if the crimes go unpunished will send a message that no punishment and creating a breeding ground for criminals, "says the journalist who spent several years reporting savage deaths in Ciudad Juárez.
Julia Tamayo insists:" The basis of all violence is power relations, inequality and of discrimination that have prevailed in the administration of justice. For them, life has no value and women tend to blame the women, who came at night, how they dressed, and who ends up being judged is the victim, "he criticizes.
Sources: 20minutos.es and
feminicidio.net
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